{"id":71486,"date":"2024-04-26T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=71486"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:07:37","slug":"white-sox-call-up-danny-mendick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/26\/white-sox-call-up-danny-mendick\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Call Up a Hot Minor League Hitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox need all the help that they can get, that much is true. They have no offense and they have a defense like a sieve. Nothing seems to be working. Defeat is often snatched from the jaws of victory and they can\u2019t get a win. It\u2019s been a historically rough start for the White Sox and it looks as if there is no end in sight. The team is undergoing constant roster movement to try to get a good formula on the field to help win games. The Sox made another move this week, bringing up third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mendida01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danny Mendick<\/a> from the minors. Mendick was explosive in the minor leagues, hitting home runs in several consecutive games for Triple-A Charlotte, so the White Sox decided to bring him up and have him try his luck in the majors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4\u20e3 straight days with a HOMER for Danny Mendick! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eL9am2kz0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eL9am2kz0w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlotte Knights (@KnightsBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnightsBaseball\/status\/1781511430946148436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Danny Mendick Making Impact on White Sox Since Call-Up<\/h2>\n<p>Chicago is going to hope that Mendick has similar success against major league pitchers. So far, through three games played, Mendick has been to the plate 13 times and has four hits, no RBI, and a stolen base. His batting average is currently .235, which certainly shows room for improvement. Right now though, if you looked at him statistically, he\u2019d be one of the better players on offense.<\/p>\n<p>As long as Mendick can hit, he\u2019s going to have a spot on the current roster. He\u2019s already had a decent start and if he keeps it up, he\u2019ll be a mainstay on the team. That\u2019s at least until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moncayo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoan Moncada<\/a>, who is out with an adductor injury, comes back. Mendick might still stick around even when Moncada comes back healthy. Should Mendick falter, however, the White Sox might end up sending him back down and keep trying to find some rhythm on offense.<\/p>\n<h3>Before Mendick<\/h3>\n<p>The White Sox had previously had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sosale01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lenyn Sosa<\/a> at the third base spot following Moncada\u2019s injury, and it didn\u2019t work out. As part of the move to bring Mendick up, the White Sox sent Sosa back to the minors to continue to develop. It was thought that Sosa would be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/13\/lenyn-sosa-white-sox-potential\/\" target=\"_self\">a strong performer<\/a> but that wasn\u2019t meant to be this time. He still has certain things, especially at the plate, that he needs to work on. Hopefully, he will get things figured out in the minors and make a successful comeback to the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Sosa had a nice game in the minors earlier this week. He is promising but just can\u2019t seem to keep up at the major league level yet. If he can ever put things together, he\u2019s a threat to be a solid if not spectacular player. But he has work to do. He must be much more consistent than he has been.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Moves<\/h3>\n<p>In order to bring Mendick up to the majors, the White Sox designated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/remilza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Remillard<\/a> for assignment. They also sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nastrni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Nastrini<\/a> down to the minors. They brought back right-hand pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brebbjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Brebbia<\/a> from the 15-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox don\u2019t have many more moves they can make. They have seemingly made a lot of moves to try to fix what&#8217;s been broken. However, they are running out of players and ways to make things better. Could calling up Mendick get them going in the right direction? It might eventually, but as of now this team is struggling and it doesn\u2019t appear as if things will get much better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox need all the help that they can get, that much is true. They have no offense and they have a defense like a sieve. Nothing seems to be working. Defeat is often snatched from the jaws of victory and they can\u2019t get a win. It\u2019s been a historically rough start for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5066,"featured_media":71555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1071],"tags":[2602,6275,772],"class_list":["post-71486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitesox","category-mlb","tag-john-brebbia","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-yoan-moncada"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}